The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 5 - Regression - Chapter 5 Exercises - Page 155: 5.37b

Answer

Putting Brother = 70, we have: Sister = 28.04 + 0.5206 (70) = 64.482 Since $r^{2} = 0.308$, we will not expect the prediction to be accurate.

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